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It may be that people grow steadily better off, yet seemingly no happier, because there is a baseline anxiety in all our hearts, and that anxiety is the fear of death.
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Millions of dead people have shown us their preference to die rather than forgive.
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Forgiveness originates in the part of each of us that yearns more for an end to foolish suffering and death than for the specious satisfaction of getting even.
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The condition of life we most want to change is the inevitability of death. Death insults us. It always wins. It mocks our wish for omnipotence and confounds our desire for control.
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…hatred and the need for revenge originate in the humiliation, rage and betrayal we feel at lacking control. The fact that death is the ultimate proof of our lack of control.
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Talent doesn’t graft on its own; you must help it happen. There is always the chance that new blood will kill you, but without it, you’ll die.
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Grow slow and see what feels right – premature hiring is the death of many companies.
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Get busy living’, or get busy dying’. If you’re not growing, you’re contracting. If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.
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022 |
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In reality, most companies don’t execute a single brilliant master plan. They go through stops and starts, a couple near-death experiences, and a great deal of adaptation.
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Later is where excuses live. Later is where good intentions go to die. Later is a broken back and a bent spirit.
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